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hinch on 26 September 2022
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Captain_Yuri said:
hinch said:

Feels like a Zen+ moment. And not that impressive once you factor in the cost of upgrading your whole system.

The 5800X3D is still a beast.. will be upgrading to that and that'll be me done for the next few years.

I think it's much worse than a Zen+ moment because of the platform upgrade cost. Zen+ was just meh in terms of performance but with Ryzen 7000... AMD is basically just asking you to pay $500+ on top of the CPU just to get almost the same gaming performance.

Yeah the cost is a tough pill to swallow for people buying into the lower end/mid range. With only expensive X670 motherboards available and DDR5 still a premium its not a great jump for PC gamers. It'll probably best to wait for for B650 boards, DDR5 price drops and X3D variant imo. Techpowerup did a comparison with several different CPU's gaming at 1440P.

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-7900x/20.html

Productivity wise its a champ though.

Last edited by hinch - on 26 September 2022